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October 19, 2008 |
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Reinterpreted History
FOUND by Alicia Karli
in Nebraska
I love the colors this photo has been reduced to. On the back it says, "Emily, high school, 2007! It's been awesome getting to know you over the years! We've had so many fun times (wandering around Walmart!) Good luck with all you do!"
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Native Americans must have been correct in their notion that shopping at WalMart will steal your soul.
VIVID.
butterflies and zebras..
fairytales..
ridin' with the wind.
I think it should be turned once, counter-clockwise.
Now, that's art! From run-of-the-mill senior picture to abstract beauty. Somehow it reminds me of that painting of the drowned Ophelia from Hamlet. Can't remember who painted it, but the model developed pneumonia from floating in a tank of water surrounded by flowers, and eventually died.
Let's hope Emily's life was longer and as beautiful as this picture. The colours and forms are very much "sunshine, lollipops an rainbows."
Wow. I thought this was a painting at first. It makes me want to print some photos and leave them out in the rain to see what they turn into.
I think it's hilarious that Emily blinked in her senior photo! And the hairdo- I'm glad that went out of style. I hope she still wears her retainer so those braces don't end up being a waste of her time.
@ Dot: I think you're right. LOL
When I was a senior, I had a rubber stamp made that I used on the back of my photos. It had the standard stuff: Great knowing you, have fun while you can, never forget the good times, etc. It made filling them out quicker since everyone puts the same thing on theirs.
I never knew Jackson Pollock & Willem de Kooning worked as school photographers. Excellent work, as always.
the odd thing is, the photo isn't actually messed up. That's what Emily really looks like.
she's a being of pure energy. and you know how hard it is for them to get a good picture taken.
too bad they messed with that Carrie "plug it up!" chick and she burned them all up in the high school...
The finder doesn't say where it was found or whether it was water that killed the image. But what else could have done it? I think maybe it went through the washer. It's a good thing Emily wrote in indelible ink.
When my daughter went with her grandparents to visit relatives in Arkansas, she met some other girls her age, and their main pastime was go to Walmart and look for cute boys. There was nothing else to do in that town. I asked her if they ever found any, and she said no.
Apparently Emily was a student in the Lascaux caves.
who the hell has a rubber stamp made??! hahaha
The girl's hand is in the bottom right, and it looks like she's sitting in the driver's seat with her hand on the stick shift, looking back at the photographer. Blonde pony tail at top. I much prefer the butterflies and zebra idea, though.
What I most love today is that our commenters are from South America, Canada, Maine and Stockholm! Very cool...
@Gal in Washington: And continental Europe, as well...the herb garden is in Europe, but I'm not telling where. Nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh-nyeh! ;)
I'll bet you used that rubber stamp for signing yearbooks too. Classy.
Could this mean that Lizard Bits' real name is Emily?
If blown up poster size, this would go with most any color scheme.
@ Vill in: some people thought it was funny and requested it. Some thought it was lame. (There wasn't much middle ground)
I think it cost me $3 for the stamp (back when $3 bought you something) and I sold it to an underclassman when I was done with it.
I could stamp a dozen photos or yearbooks per minute. They didn't call me a geek for nothing.
Here's what I see: at the top where it is blue, purple and green, I can see two eyes on either side of the photo. Then maybe 1/4 of the way over (from the left side) I can see a sloped line that looks like a nose. Then where the yellow and red starts is her mouth. (The yellow and red part was teeth.) Then where the red and yellow curves against the peachy flesh color would be a chin. I'm a pretty absract person, but I'm having a hard time seeing it any other way.
Initially I was a little creeped out by the idea of someone's memory so effectively destroyed, but I guess I'm in a morbid mood.
Are y'all really seeing details, or just using your imagination? I can see what I think is a hand, but that is it.
I saved the image on my computer and opened it in paint program. I drew some very quick very rough guidelines to show what I was talking about in my previous post. Hopefully it will helo explain what I think I'm seeing.
IMG]http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s177/ab
Okay that link didn't work. Try this one.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s177/abrigg
Okay, n/m! It wont let post it. I guess you'll just have to see it for yourselves.
VILE.
moldy bread and cake..
scrambled eggs..
my dog puked on the carpet.
What a Rorschach test! The "eyeball" in the top center looks kind of creepy. Between that and the rounded face and the lips, it looks like an evil Cabbage Patch Kid. An evil CPK that has a crab-leg-like arm for a leg, no body, and huge, wing-like ears. Also, its leg is standing upon another, detached right forearm. That's what I'm seeing, and I'm in a GOOD mood.
I love the bright, vivid primary colours visible here. Incidentally, the yellow appears to be the same shade as the yellow safety paint that is used to mark posts and aisleways in industrial plants.
When I tilt my head to the right, I see a camel in a field of flowers, howling at the moon. When I tilt it to the left, I see a zombie doing the back stroke in the ocean.
If I only tilt my head to the right slightly, I see E.T. phoning home.
A rock, with mult-colored lichen growing on it (the oranges and yellows)
I see Yoda.
@Flargy: you could very well be correct! If she was in high school last year, she'd be too young to remember Dan Ackroyd's Super Bass-o-Matic.
Oh, yeah, Emily, also don't forget the throwing up we did in the parking lot after drinking that cheap liquor we got from Walmart. Here's a photo of it, 'cause I know you were too blotto really to remember.
Whiskey, where's your image?
Whiskey, have you tried tinyurl.com? In order to preserve page formatting, Found chops off long URLs (and runon words or sentences with no spaces or punctuation), but if you go to tinyurl.com and put your long url in, it'll create a short one that won't get clipped.
So glad to see Emily's skin condition is finally under control. That Proactiv really does the trick.
Beautiful. A true random Find.
i see a baby
in utero
or something by Da Vinci
@ basil -- it was Millais (the drowned Ophelia), and the model was Elizabeth Siddal. The bath was kept warm (evidently not warm enough) by lamps burning underneath it. The painting took four months (in winter) to complete -- poor girl.
If we're talking painters, the colours remind me of Gustave Moreau, or who was the other one? Odilon Redon?
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